She's an amazing guitarist and singer.....What a tough kid as well.....
[h=2]My journey with Alopecia Areata[/h][FONT="]The best gig I ever played was in the summer of 2017 at the National Alopecia Areata Foundation. For those of you who don’t know, alopecia areata is a specific kind of hair loss that is caused by the immune system attacking hair follicles. I was diagnosed with alopecia areata when I was three years old, and within a year, the autoimmune disease had quickly progressed into its rarest form, alopecia universalis, or total body hair loss. My panicking mom found the only alopecia areata specialist in the country at the time, who happened to be in San Francisco, near where I grew up. She gave us the rundown of possible treatments, like regular steroid shots in the head, or cream that irritated the scalp in order to promote temporary hair growth. To this day there are no FDA-approved treatments for alopecia, and once someone has lost all of their hair, the probability of it growing back becomes slimmer. As a 3-year-old, I couldn’t care less if my hair grew back or not, and to my parents’ credit they respected my wishes to stay off medications.[/FONT]